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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#351 Post by Ribs » Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:08 pm


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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#352 Post by pointless » Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:11 am

Re: Cohen Media Acquires Merchant Ivory Catalog - details:

A Room with a View, Remains of the Day, Jefferson in Paris, and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge will not be included.

Director James Ivory will work closely with the U.S. label on the restoration and re-releases of the films.

ACQUIRED FEATURE FILMS:
  • 1. The Householder
    2. Shakespeare Wallah
    3. Autobiography of a Princess
    4. Bombay Talkie
    5. Savages
    6. Roseland
    7. Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
    8. The Europeans
    9. Jane Austen in Manhattan
    10. Quartet
    11. The Bostonians
    12. The Courtesans of Bombay
    13. Howards End
    14. The Perfect Murder
    15. The Ballad of the Sad Café
    16. In Custody 1994
    17. The Proprietor
    18.The Mystic Masseur
    19. Heat and Dust
    20. Maurice
    21. The Deceivers
ACQUIRED DOCUMENTARIES AND SHORTS:
  • 1. The Sword and the Flute
    2. Venice: Themes & Variations
    3. The Creation of Woman
    4. The Delhi Way
    5. Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
    6. Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls
    7. Mahatma and the Mad Boy
    8. Sweet Sounds
    9. Street Musicians of Bombay 1994

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#353 Post by Ashirg » Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:41 am

first 2016 titles announced -

January 26th - François Ozon's The New Girlfriend (Une nouvelle amie, 2014)
February 9th - Jérôme Enrico's Paulette (2012)
February 16th - 3-disc Taviani Brothers Collection (Night of the Shooting Stars, Kaos, Padre Padrone) (trailer)

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#354 Post by TMDaines » Wed Nov 18, 2015 7:51 am

Ooo, the Taviani collection sounds fantastic.

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#355 Post by ellipsis7 » Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:01 pm

TMDaines wrote:Ooo, the Taviani collection sounds fantastic.
Absolutely agree - you might also enjoy this - Fughe E Approdi by Giovanna Taviani...

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#356 Post by Rupert Pupkin » Thu Nov 19, 2015 11:58 pm

in the Benoit Jacquot trilogy : I've seen a very short clip (but who wouldn't notice this?) from Emmanuelle Béart in the bathroom in "L'Enfer" (Chabrol) as well as a very short clip of "Betty".
I hope that these 2 will came out via Cohen on Blu-Ray very soon

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Cohen Film Collection

#357 Post by FrauBlucher » Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:58 pm



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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#359 Post by pointless » Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:17 am

Special Features:
  • 2010 interview with French fashion designer and film producer Agnès B. (20 minutes).
    2010 interview with Godard scholar Antoine de Baecque (18 minutes).
    2010 interview with star Macha Méril (30 minutes).
    2015 Re-release trailer

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#360 Post by pointless » Wed Dec 23, 2015 9:03 pm


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Cohen Film Collection

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#362 Post by domino harvey » Fri Feb 12, 2016 10:57 pm

Cohen will be releasing a Maurice Pialat Vol 1 set in May. Three discs with contents not announced yet, though the cast details on Amazon reveal one of the films is Loulou

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#363 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:16 pm

Loulou is the Depardieu that I've anticipated the most since the acquisition announcement. I wouldn't be surprised if they chose all the Depardieu features for that volume then. Police, Loulou, and especially Satan are all stellar performances it'd certainly make sense.

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#364 Post by domino harvey » Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:24 pm

I think Police is still with Olive, though Cohen does have Satan

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#365 Post by zedz » Sun Feb 14, 2016 7:40 pm

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:Loulou is the Depardieu that I've anticipated the most since the acquisition announcement. I wouldn't be surprised if they chose all the Depardieu features for that volume then. Police, Loulou, and especially Satan are all stellar performances it'd certainly make sense.
Don't forget Le Garcu! Though I assume it's still a licensing nightmare.

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#366 Post by Lowry_Sam » Mon Feb 15, 2016 12:07 am

Credits for the prints in the Pialat retrospective currently running @ the (new) PFA are:

Cohen:
Loulou
Maurice Pialat: Love Exists
Van Gogh
Under the Sun of Satan
The Mouth Agape (Digital Restoration)
Graduate First

Gaumont:
Pialat's Turkish Chronicles
Police

La Cinémathèque Française:
Le Garçu

Institut Francais
A Nos Amours

Janus/Criterion:
Naked Childhood

The Film Desk:
We Will Not Grow Old Together

No Credit mentioned (or whether 35mm or digital):
The House in the Woods

all are imported 35mm prints except where noted.

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#367 Post by Gaddis » Mon Feb 15, 2016 1:50 am

I would love to see The House in the Woods and Le Garçu receive English friendly releases. Can anyone shed any light on the licensing nightmare's keeping them from wider release?

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#368 Post by zedz » Mon Feb 15, 2016 4:18 pm

Gaddis wrote:I would love to see The House in the Woods and Le Garçu receive English friendly releases. Can anyone shed any light on the licensing nightmare's keeping them from wider release?
I don't know the full details of the Le Garcu hold-up, but its inclusion in the Gaumont Integrale sets was a very expensive 'once and never again' special arrangement. The producer commented to this effect in an interview I read (but don't remember where). It may just be yet another case of a sales agent having totally unrealistic financial expectations, and holding the film hostage to them.

I don't think there's any real obstacle to The House in the Woods. It was a standard TV production (ORTF / RAI) and it's been reissued in France. The obstacles here are will and economics. Pialat has never been a big name abroad, this is his least known work, and it's seven hours long. Fortunately, there's a serviceable transfer, but it's still an almighty gamble for any English-language label, who seem to be struggling to make even Van Gogh pay its way.

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#369 Post by Gaddis » Tue Feb 16, 2016 3:34 am

Thanks for the reply. Sad to hear that Le Garçu has been effectively Eustached.

It was actually Rivette's comments that piqued my interest in The House in the Woods: "I would put Van Gogh (1991) and The House in the Woods (1971) above all his other films. Because there he succeeded in filming the happiness, no doubt imaginary, of the pre-WWI world. Although the tone is very different, it’s as beautiful as Renoir."

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#370 Post by pointless » Wed Feb 17, 2016 5:15 pm

The Claude Chabrol Blu-ray Collection Trailer

All with 2K restorations

Betty (1992)
L'enfer a.k.a. Torment (1994)
The Swindle (Rien ne va plus) (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihxAV1QQS7E
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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#371 Post by domino harvey » Wed Feb 17, 2016 5:36 pm

Sweet, Betty's not very good but the other two are among Chabrol's best

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#372 Post by NABOB OF NOWHERE » Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:07 pm

domino harvey wrote:Sweet, Betty's not very good but the other two are among Chabrol's best
On the other hand I would suggest that the first 20 minutes represents one of the top updated Simenon adaptations to date.

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#373 Post by perkizitore » Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:24 pm

pointless wrote:The Claude Chabrol Blu-ray Collection Trailer

All with 2K restorations

Betty (1992)
L'enfer a.k.a. Torment (1994)
The Swindle (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihxAV1QQS7E
I think I will pass, it's better to wait for the eventual Arrow release :P

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#374 Post by Grisbi » Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:07 pm

domino harvey wrote:Sweet, Betty's not very good but the other two are among Chabrol's best
Woo-boy I couldn't disagree more, BETTY is pretty close to a masterpiece in my eyes. Both Trintignant and Audran here are two of the strongest performances in all of Chabrol I feel, particularly the latter in her last collaboration with the director, all the more poignant in a role all about aging and death.

L'ENFER is very good, but I don't think it gets any more screamingly mediocre than THE SWINDLE.

Nonetheless, exciting release!

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Re: Cohen Film Collection

#375 Post by domino harvey » Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:23 pm

Rien ne va plus is Chabrol's To Catch a Thief-- light, airless, and sublime.

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